³⁴ Then Ben-hadad said to him, ‘I restore to you the cities that my father took from your father,^(A) and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, like my father set up in Samaria.’^(B)

Ahab responded, ‘On the basis of this treaty, I release you.’ So he made a treaty with him and released him.

¹³ He took one of the royal family^(A) and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath.^(B) Then he took away the leading men of the land,